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Ancient fvnerall monvments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent, : with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and bvriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations ... / Composed by the studie and trauels of John Weever.

Maker(s)

Author: Weever, John
Engraver: Cecil, Thomas
Printer: Harper, Thomas, d. 1656
Bookseller: Sadler, Laurence

Alphabet; international annual of letterforms. Volume 1 1964

Maker(s)

Editor: Hutchings, R. S.
Publisher: James Moran Ltd.

The "Costerian" Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, reproduced in collotype facsimile, with introduction by Stephen Gaselee.

Maker(s)

Author: Alexander, de Villa Dei
Contributor: Gaselee, Stephen
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Cambridge University Press

The Towneley lectionary : illuminated for Cardinal Alessandro Farneseby Giulio Clovio : The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Manuscript 91 / described by Jonathan J.G. Alexander.

Maker(s)

Author: Alexander, J. J. G.
Contributor: Wainwright, Clive
Contributor: Towneley, Simon, Sir
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Smith Settle Limited

The triumphes of Petrarch, translated by Henry Parker, Lord Morley, 1554; reprinted by Stafford Henry, Earl of Iddesleigh.

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Translator: Morley, Henry Parker, Lord
Editor: Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry N., 1st Earl of
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Nichols and Sons

The pilgrimage of the life of man, Englished by John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville, A.D. 1330, 1355. The text edited by F.J. Furnivall ... With introduction, notes, glossary and indexes by Katharine B. Locock ... Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Maker(s)

Author: Guillaume, de Deguileville
Translator: Lydgate, John
Editor: Furnivall, Frederick James
Contributor: Locock, Katharine Beatrice
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Nichols and Sons

Chronological list of members ; Catalogue of books ; Rules and regulations

Maker(s)

Author: Roxburghe Club
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Nichols and Sons

A Lamport garland from the library of Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Bart., comprising four unique works hitherto unknown. Printed for the Roxburghe Club

Maker(s)

Author: E. C., Esquier
Author: Rogers, Thomas
Author: Powell, Thomas
Author: Phillips, John, active 1570-1591
Editor: Edmonds, Charles
Isham, Charles Edmund
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: J. B. Nichols and Sons

The Kings prophecie: or, Weeping ioy. Expressed in a poem, to the honor of Englands too great solemnities. By Ios. Hall. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Maker(s)

Editor: Buckley, William Edward
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Nichols and Sons

The history of Oliver of Castile, reprinted from the unique copy of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of 1518, preserved in the library at Britwell Court.

Maker(s)

Olivier de Castille
Translator: Watson, Henry
Editor: Graves, Robert Edmund
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Blades, East & Blades

The Trinity college Apocalypse; a reproduction in facsimile of the manuscript R. 16.2 in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge, with preface and description by Montague Rhodes James. With three fully coloured plates.

Maker(s)

Editor: James, Montague Rhodes, Dr
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd.

Letters of Philip Gawdy of West Harling, Norfolk, and of London to various members of his family, 1579-1616 edited from the originals in the British Museum with an introduction and notes, by Isaac Herbert Jeayes.

Maker(s)

Editor: Jeayes, Isaac Herbert
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: J. B. Nichols and Sons

Lord Byron and his detractors

Maker(s)

Author: Murray, John, IV
Author: Prothero, Rowland Edmund
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Balantyne & Co. Ltd.

The Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ; a translation of the Latin work entitled Meditations vitæ Christi; attributed to Cardinal Bonaventura. Made before the year 1410 by Nicholas Love; prior of the Carthusian monastery of Mount Grace

Maker(s)

Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal
Translator: Love, Nicholas
Editor: Powell, Lawrence Fitzroy
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Claredon Press

A short treatise of hunting : compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G. E. Cokayne

Maker(s)

Author: Cockaine, Thomas
Contributor: Cokayne, George Edward
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Nichols and Sons

The parlement of the thre ages, an alliterative poem of the XIVth century, now first ed., from manuscripts in the British Museum, with introduction, notes, and appendices containing the poem of "Winnere and wastoure," and illustrative texts by Israel Gollancz

Maker(s)

Author: Jacques, de Longuyon
Author: Gollancz, Israel
Roxburghe Club
Printer: Nichols and Sons

The Gowrie conspiracy: confessions of George Sprot.

Maker(s)

Author: Sprott, George
Editor: Lang, Andrew
Roxburghe Club
Printer: Spottiswoode and Co.

The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode, translated from the French of Christine de Pisan, with a dedication to Sir John Fastolf, K.G., by Stephen Scrope, edited from a manuscript in the library of the Marquis of Bath, by George F. Warner

Maker(s)

Author: Christine, de Pisan
Translator: Scrope, Stephen
Roxburghe Club
J. B. Nichols and Sons

Dissertation on the accounts of All Souls College, Oxford

Maker(s)

Author: Blackstone, William
Roxburghe Club
Printer: J. B. Nichols and Sons

Report on the typography of the Cambridge University Press prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers.

Maker(s)

Author: Rogers, Bruce
Publisher: Wynkyn de Worde Society
Printer: John Roberts Press

The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter)

Maker(s)

Author: Pächt, Otto
Author: Dodwell, Charles Reginald
Author: Wormald, Francis
Publisher: Warburg Institute

The game of ombre

Maker(s)

Author: Gibbs, Henry Hucks
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Chiswick Press

Mr Cobden-Sanderson's two-handed engine

Maker(s)

Author: Nash, John R.
Publisher: Nine Elms Press
Printer: Whittington Press

The book of hours of Yolande of Flanders, a manuscript of the fourteenth century in the library of Henry Yates Thompson, with a description by S. C. Cockerell and photogravures by Emery Walker.

Maker(s)

Author: Cockerell, Sydney C.
Photographer: Walker, Emery
Printer: Charles Whittingham & Co.
Printer: Chiswick Press

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